Claude Code Costs $200 a Month — Goose Does the Same Thing for Free
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Claude Code is one of the best AI coding agents available in 2026. It’s also $200 a month for the Max plan, locks you into Anthropic’s models, and sends your code to Anthropic’s servers. For a lot of developers — and especially for people who aren’t developers but want to use AI to build things — that’s a problem. Enter Goose: an open-source, free alternative built by Block (the company behind Square) and now governed by the Linux Foundation. I tested it for a week, and the gap between “free” and “$200/month” is smaller than you’d think. ...